Someone found Mama's eye shadow. 

 

 

So my baby girl has been in Kindergarten for exactly 37 days (at least I think that's what she said earlier today, and she is keeping record).  She is still loving it in a pretty big way which makes me very happy.  We had our first ever parent-teacher conference and she brought home her first ever report card.  It seems my smarty-pants girl is reading at a third grade level, and is above grade level in math as well. I can't really say I'm overly surprised but I'm still super proud of my baby girl.  So the teacher has started giving her some first grade work and put her in an accelerated reading group.  Mrs. Pfister also said that she was a very sweet girl who is "a joy to have in class" and "adds many insightful comments to our discussions".  This makes me every bit as proud as the great grades =) 

 

She comes home every day singing some new little song or another, or saying something new in French.  She's made some sweet little friends, and she's been on her very first bus-ride to her first ever field trip to watch a Winnie-the-Pooh play at the Kentucky Center for the Arts.  She brought home her first "bug"from school a couple weeks ago.  She ran a fever of 103.6 and was diagnosed with Strep, but she's all better now.  And most recently we went to her first school skating party.  She was pretty cute trying to learn to skate.  She fell quite a few times but got right back up and by the end of the night she was managing on her own without holding my hand or using the wall for support.  She had so much fun, she can't wait for the next skating party. 

 

 

 

 

Oh, and one more recent development that is totally unrelated to school.  She is cutting a new lower molar.  I had no idea they did that at this age!

Lake Cumberland 2013

 Each October we go with Doug's family to Lake Cumberland State Park.  We always look forward to this little weekend getaway.

 

 

Kerry was just thrilled to spend time with her cousins.  This was little Kinsley's first year.  They spent mornings like this, bleary eyed but ready to enjoy each other's company...for the most part ; ).

 



 

Ready for adventure.

 

 

Just being a little crazy.

 

Exploring.

Collecting rock and shell "treasures".

Just being cute.

 

 



 

My girl can always spot a potential balance beam.

 

 

This one is fuzzy but I still love it =)

 

 

All three girls fell asleep on the pontoon ride.  Kerry passed out first and slept the longest.  Maybe she's still recovering a bit from the bout of strep throat that was diagnosed with last week.

 

 

 

 

Another thing she can spot from across the room is a checker-board.  She's good, too!

 

And, as always, the pool at the lodge was a huge hit =).

 

We came home Sunday afternoon and I'll have you know that Kerry was asleep by 7 pm and did not wake up until 9 am Monday morning!

Watching the subtle growth and changes in my girl is still an endless source of amazement for me.  It seems that almost daily I look at her and the dress she's wearing looks like it just a tad shorter than the last time she wore it, or she seems to have lost even more of her "baby-face",  or maybe just the way she's carrying her self seems just a bit more mature.  It's heartbreaking yet nothing could make me happier than to be able to witness this.  Amazing isn't it?!



 

One of the more recent things I've noticed is that all of a sudden she's become quite the sassy poser. 

 

 

 

Usually I just catch her in a silly, giggly mood and just start snapping away, but earlier this week she was looking so cute in this dress and it was such a pretty day outside that asked her to oblige me with a few photos.  To my surprise she started posing.

 

 

I mean, really posing.

 

 

So of course I just snapped away.

 

 

She stopped briefly to share some juicy secret with Daddy.

 

Then continued smiling...even though she was starting to get warm.

 

 

 

 

Twirling.  I know she's really happy when she twirls.  And that makes me happy.



 

She is just too much, this girl....

But, gosh, are we crazy for her!

 

 



 

I mean, come on, how could we not be!

 

 Especially when she says things like:

"Daddy, you're the best". 
and "Mommy, you're the best Mommy a child could ever have!"


 

 

She keeps us amazed and in stitches regularly with some of the things she says, and since starting Kindergarten she has picked up so many new things.  She has perfected the "teacher voice" already and she comes home nearly every day singing a cute new song.  As excited as she is about school, she is one tired little girl by the time evening rolls around.  She's gone from one day a week to five days a week...'til 3:45 pm, but she is really adjusting well.  Mommy is adjusting, too, to the new work schedule ( working Tuesday-Friday now),  the daily car-rider pick up line (nearly a half hour ordeal most days), and nightly lunch-making duties.  Which reminds me of something funny Kerry said after I made one of her new favorites for lunch...grilled cheese and fried bologna sandwich.  She said:

"Mommy you make the best food a mom could ever make for her child...or daddy!  Wait...do daddies cook?!"   Not in this house, apparently, haha.

And another cute conversation with my girl:

 

Kerry: "Mommy, how long has God been alive?"

 

Me: "Well, honey, God has been around forever"

 

Kerry:  "He was even alive in the nineties!"